- Depressed El Chapo given Don Quixote to read in prison. (Melville House)
- Amazon now warns readers if ebooks are poorly written and edited. (Good E-reader)
- Nature-loving author Amy Tan now has a species of Australian leech named after her. (The Guardian)
- Following the success of Netflix series Making a Murderer, prosecutor Ken Kratz is writing a book. (Entertainment Weekly)
- The Open Syllabus Project surveys the books most frequently taught in university classes. (Open Culture)
- The trouble with translating Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis in Japan. (Japan Times)
- That time in the ’80s when famous U.S. authors and poets wrote video games. (The New Yorker)
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